Who do we believe now, Nigeria Military or the so called Abubakar Shekau who emerges after the military shows he has been killed. hmmm,only time will tell! Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed Nigerian military claims of his
death in a new video obtained exclusively by AFP on Thursday and said the militants had
implemented strict Islamic law in captured towns.
"Here
I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath," Shekau said,
adding that his group was "running our... Islamic caliphate" and
administering strict sharia punishments.
Boko Haram has shown images of extreme
violence before but the latest video shows at length graphic scenes of an
amputation and a stoning to death as well as a beheading.
It also purports to show the wreckage
of a Nigerian Air Force jet that went missing in the northeast on September 11.
Boko Haram said its fighters shot it down but the military denied the claim.
The military announced last week that
Shekau was dead and that a man who had been posing as the group's leader in the
videos had been killed after fighting with troops in the far northeast.
Security analysts and the United States
questioned the credibility of the military's claim.
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